Name
maxstr
Synopsis
maxstr @list
Similar to max, except
that maxstr treats all list
items as strings. maxstr will
return the “highest string” as determined by the gt operator. As always, if list is
empty, maxstr returns undef.
my @ll = qw(1 3 5 nate Person pizza man carl_everett dinosaur); my $max_s = maxstr(@ll); print "$max_s\n"; # Prints 'pizza'
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